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Top Transformational Films of 2011 As we start 2012 with all of the promise that it brings for transformation, let’s take a look back at some of the amazing films or 2011 that brought us to this point. The results of the voting are in for the Veiwer's Choice, and the editors at AwareGuide offer their top picks for 2011, and recognize some films with special consideration. Thank you to all of the people who voted - the response was overwhelming with over 5000 people from over 50 countries coming to vote.

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Academy Awards 2012 Shortlist Its that time of year again when the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentaries Screening Committee select a shortlist of 15 feature length documentaries and that are eligible for consideration for nomination for an Oscar for Best Documentary. From this list of fifteen films, five will be selected as finalists by voting members of the Academy's Documentaries Branch for the Best Documentary Oscar.

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Int'l Documentary Awards The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced a trio of hosts for the December 2nd IDA Documentary Awards, representing the dizzying diversity of documentary filmmaking. Oscar®-nominated Josh Fox, our banjo-strumming guide through last year’s GASLAND and hailed by The New York Times as "one of the most adventurous impresarios of the New York avant-garde,” and Sundance veteran and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain, one of Newsweek’s “Women Shaping the 21st Century,”

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Fierce Light's Velcrow Ripper Q&A

Velcrow Ripper opens his newest documentary, Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action, with his own heart-felt words. “Today I feel tremors of a volcanic spirit starting to build all over the globe. Another world is possible.”

But will that spirit—to stop the world’s human rights and environmental abuses—prove most effective if it takes the form of nonviolent protest, as Mahatma Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. posited? Ripper uses Fierce Light to explore that question, researching various spiritual and cultural groups’

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The Green World Campaign works to reforest our planet, raise the living standards of the rural poor, and combat global climate change. We plant trees to restore the ecology and economy of some of the world's poorest places. We help…

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